The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 142
He is in better circumstances than I am, has great, big rooms, and wears a fine black-velvet coat.
Who acts: neighbour · What happens: be, have, wear · To what, where: better circumstances, fine velvet coat
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 circumstances | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 circumstances | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 circumstances | case |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 circumstances | amod |
| 5 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 am | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 am | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 circumstances | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 circumstances | parataxis |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 has | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rooms | punct |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rooms | amod |
| 14 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 great | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wears | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wears | cc |
| 17 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 has | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 coat | det |
| 19 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 coat | amod |
| 20 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 velvet | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 black | punct |
| 22 | velvet | velvet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 coat | amod |
| 23 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wears | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 circumstances | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | neighbour | better circumstances | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | great property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wear | present | a fine velvet coat | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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